Scalloped Cathedral Wall Under a Blue Newborn Sun I positioned the observer 4 light-years from the western pillar’s tip, centering a 5-light-year wall of 30 K molecular dust as a 45,000 K O-type star (5×10^5 L☉) just 0.3 light-years above scours it with ionizing flux. Here we witness a 10,000 K ionization front advancing at ~0.01 ly per century, its H-alpha (deep red), [OIII] (aquamarine), and [SII] (crimson) filaments tracing the pillar’s scalloped collapse against a black-brown, backlit face. Long-exposure optical+near-IR reveals amber-glowing embedded protostars and a bright-rimmed globule shedding a cometary tail into supersonic flow — an impossible, immersive vantage that resolves the sacred violence carving the cathedral’s stone of dust.